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Stop in vitro fertilization and medical treatment for everything except accidents too, then. After all, if you get a heart attack and we help you, we're just encouraging people with genes that provide medical risk factors to continue. In fact, we should probably take out your kids.

Depression is an illness, not a choice, and you're arguing letting people die from a disease where it's possibly preventable.

I said solar power plants, not solar photovoltaic power plants. If your 'fuel source' becomes solar panels, it's not exactly renewable. There's a 300+ MW solar power towers in the Mojave desert for example. It uses heliostats, not solar panels.

Well, at least the pollution they caused wasn't being ejected into city centers where people would immediately breathe it in, but instead at a centralized location where big bucks could be spent to achieve big gains of pollution reduction.

The main benefit of electric vehicles is the ability to move to an electricity-based society, at which point the problem that would remain is getting clean electricity. Filling a desert with solar power plants would probably do it.

Why? If they threaten to let you go, keep drinking water and don't go to the bathroom. When they fire you for pissing at your desk, I'd bet you have a good case in court. Provided you didn't drink excessive amounts of water.

The suicide guys? Yeah, they're the ones who can be persuaded that dying is worth it. But 'terrorist' by now encompasses such a large group, there are going to be plenty of people capable of planning a complex attack.

One guy with a few drones remotely piloted on a common frequency, say 433MHz, carrying pipe bombs onto school playgrounds cannot easily be stopped. Where this same guy with an AK47 can be stopped with a single bullet.

That depends on your point of view. From the point of view of the unemployment administration, yes. The program works.

From my point of view, it was pleasant as well. I was looking, but not very aggressively. Partly because my previous salary was good enough that I could get by on 70% of it (standard unemployment in the Netherlands). I'd had plenty of rejections without even a meet-up. Being approached by multiple employers meant I had choice, more confidence, and eventually a great job.

I have said it before and I'll say it again: I'm amazed noone has taken a consumer-grade self-built multicopter, put a pound of plastic explosive on it, and flown it into or next to an important building from a mile away.

Building a quadcopter or such capable of carrying a lethal payload and flying it FPV takes about $250-300.

Having been on unemployment here in the Netherlands, I can say this: Waiting for people who haven't been looking for work to look for work is not going to... uhm... work. If you want people to get work, you need to have a bridge between employers and the jobless. I am very employable, but despise searching for jobs.

What worked for me was a newsletter from the unemployment agency to potential employers, listing candidates looking for work. The 'recruiters' knew my strengths and weaknesses, and could use that to advantage. Importantly, employers started calling me, instead of the other way around. Had a few meet-ups, still got turned down by a few, turned one down myself, and accepted another. So now I'm gainfully employed and posting on Slashdot.

Mind you, I wasn't even remotely in danger of being homeless, especially with the Netherlands' good unemployment system, and when that runs out welfare. If I were homeless, I'd not be employable, which would make forcing me to look for a job fruitless.

I don't think everyone agrees that students need more of their shitty education. Honestly, if you can't teach it in ten months, you can't teach it in eleven months either. Poor educational results are a thing of standards, not lack of time.

Despite possibly being a remnant of an agrarian past, you have to look at what's more useful. As countries that favor creative thinkers over merely competent automatons, education during summer vacation may be more effective than a month of extra school.

Mind you, sitting at home playing PS4 is a terrible way to spend summer vacation. Travel, organizing and playing real-world games, exploring, hell, building a trebuchet or something, these are all educational, and can't really be done in school.